phénoménales
\fe.nɔ.me.nal\
The verdict
“phénoménales” is uncommon French (frequency #76,004 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,004
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de phénoménal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phenomenales · phénoménales · French
phénoménales · rank #76,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,004
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pigmentaires
Nearest frequency peer: pigmentaires (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « phénoménales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peuplant
peuplant
24,001 corpus weight
- peus
peus
24,000 corpus weight
- phénoménales
phénoménales
23,997 corpus weight
- pigmentaires
pigmentaires
23,996 corpus weight
- pipés
pipés
23,995 corpus weight
- pistolero
pistolero
23,994 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phénoménales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phénoménales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.nɔ.me.nal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phénoménales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phénoménales is uncommon French at frequency #76,004 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fe.nɔ.me.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de phénoménal.".
phénoménales doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is phénoménales, spelled P-H-É-N-O-M-É-N-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de phénoménal.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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